Editing Puget Sound (section)

==History==
[[Image:1867 U.S. Coast Survey Chart or Map of Puget Sound, Washington - Geographicus - PugetSound-uscs-1867.jpg|thumb|left|upright|U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart of Puget Sound, Washington Territory, 1867]]

Puget Sound has been home to many Indigenous peoples, such as the [[List of Lushootseed-speaking peoples|Lushootseed-speaking peoples]], as well as the [[Twana]], [[Chimakum]], and [[Klallam]], for millennia. The earliest known presence of Indigenous inhabitants in the Puget Sound region is between 14,000 BCE to 6,000 BCE.<ref name="Kopperl Taylor Miss Ames 2015 pp. 116–120">{{cite journal |last1=Kopperl |first1=Robert E. |last2=Taylor |first2=Amanda K. |last3=Miss |first3=Christian J. |last4=Ames |first4=Kenneth M. |last5=Hodges |first5=Charles M. |title=The Bear Creek Site (45KI839), a Late Pleistocene–Holocene Transition Occupation in the Puget Sound Lowland, King County, Washington |journal=PaleoAmerica |volume=1 |issue=1 |date=2015 |issn=2055-5563 |doi=10.1179/2055556314Z.0000000004 |pages=116–120}}</ref>
{{Location map |USA |width=230 |float=right|relief=1 |caption=Puget Sound's location in the U.S. |lon_dir=W |lat_dir=N |lat_deg=47.6 |lon_deg=122.4 }}

Dispatched in an attempt to locate the fabled [[Northwest Passage]], British Royal Navy captain [[George Vancouver]] anchored on May 19, 1792, on the shores of [[Seattle]], explored Puget Sound, and claimed it for [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] on June 4 the same year, naming it for one of his officers, [[Peter Puget|Lieutenant Peter Puget]]. He further named the entire region; ''New Georgia'', after King [[George III]].<ref name="Washington State Archives 2022">{{cite web |title=Territorial Timeline: While searching for the Northwest Passage, Captain George Vancouver explores Puget Sound and names the bordering land New Georgia |website=Washington State Archives |date=July 6, 2022 |url=https://www.sos.wa.gov/archives/timeline/detail.aspx?id=16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415162753/https://www.sos.wa.gov/archives/timeline/detail.aspx?id=16 |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Hayes 1999 pp. 85–86">{{cite book |last=Hayes |first=Derek |chapter=Vancouver on the Northwest Coast |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/historicalatlaso0000haye_i1k9/page/84/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration |title=Historical atlas of the Pacific Northwest: maps of exploration and discovery: British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Yukon |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalatlaso0000haye_i1k9 |url-access=subscription |via=Internet Archive |publisher=Sasquatch Books |publication-place=Seattle |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-57061-215-2 |oclc=40813256 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historicalatlaso0000haye_i1k9/page/84/mode/2up 85]–[https://archive.org/details/historicalatlaso0000haye_i1k9/page/86/mode/2up 86]}}</ref>
After 1818 Britain and the United States, which both claimed the [[Oregon Country]], agreed to "joint occupancy", deferring resolution of the [[Oregon boundary dispute]]. The [[Puget Sound Agricultural Company]] was formed 
by HBC to encorage settlement. Pursuant to the 1846 [[Oregon Treaty]]; Puget Sound which was part of the disputed region became US territory.

American [[maritime fur trade]]rs visited Puget Sound in the early 19th century.<ref name="Mackie 1997 p. 146">{{harvnb |Mackie |1997 |pp=[{{GBurl|id=VKXgJw6K088C|pg=PA146 146]}}{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211113334/http://books.google.com/books?id=VKXgJw6K088C&pg=PA146 |date=December 11, 2013}}}}</ref>

An [[Hudson's Bay Company]] expedition led by [[James McMillan (fur trader)|James McMillan]] in late 1824 was first non-Indigenous group to enter Puget Sound since George Vancouver in 1792. The expedition went on to reach the [[Fraser River]], first again to reach the lower Fraser since Fraser himself in 1808.<ref name="Williams 2020">{{cite web |last=Williams |first=David B. |author-link=David Williams (natural history writer) |title=Hudson's Bay Company builds Fort Nisqually in spring 1833. |work=HistoryLink |url=https://www.historylink.org/file/20999 |id=Essay 20999 |date=March 19, 2020 |access-date=March 21, 2024}}</ref>

The first non-Indigenous settlement in the Puget Sound area was [[Fort Nisqually]], a fur trade post of the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] (HBC) built in 1833.<ref name="Metro Parks Tacoma Fort Nisqually">{{cite web |url= http://www.metroparkstacoma.org/history-fort-nisqually/ |title= History of Fort Nisqually |publisher= Metro Parks Tacoma |access-date= August 6, 2014 |archive-date= August 10, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140810044114/http://www.metroparkstacoma.org/history-fort-nisqually/ |url-status=deviated}}</ref> [[Fort Nisqually]] was part of the HBC's [[Columbia District]], headquartered at [[Fort Vancouver]]. In 1838, the HBC's subsidy operation, the Puget Sound Agricultural Company was established in part to procure resources and trade, as well as to further establish British claim to the region.<ref name="Galbraith 1954 pp. 234–259">{{cite journal |last=Galbraith |first=John S. |author-link=John Semple Galbraith |title=The Early History of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company, 1838-43 |journal=Oregon Historical Quarterly |publisher=Oregon Historical Society |volume=55 |issue=3 |date=September 1954 |issn=0030-4727 |jstor=20612147 |pages=234–259 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20612147 |archive-date=June 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604132935/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20612147 |url-status=live }}</ref> Missionaries J.P. Richmond and W.H. Wilson were attending Fort Nisqually for two years by 1840.<ref name="Meany 1916 pp. 136–143">{{cite journal |last=Meany |first=Edmond S. |author-link=Edmond S. Meany |title=First American Settlement on Puget Sound |journal=The Washington Historical Quarterly |publisher=University of Washington |volume=7 |issue=2 |date=April 1916 |issn=0361-6223 |jstor=40474609 |pages=136–143 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40474609 |archive-date=August 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815160958/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40474609 |url-status=live }}</ref> British ships, such as the ''[[Beaver (steamship)|Beaver]]'', exported foodstuffs and provisions from Fort Nisqually, and would eventually export Puget Sound lumber, an industry that would soon outpace the dominant fur trading market and drive the early Puget Sound economy.{{sfn|Mackie |1997 |pp=235–239}}<ref name="Buchanan 1936 pp. 34–53">{{cite journal |last=Buchanan |first=Iva L. |title=Lumbering and Logging in the Puget Sound Region in Territorial Days |journal=The Pacific Northwest Quarterly |publisher=University of Washington |volume=27 |issue=1 |date=January 1936 |issn=0030-8803 |jstor=20698094 |pages=34–53 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20698094 |archive-date=June 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604132920/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20698094 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The first organized American expedition took place under the helm of Commander [[Charles Wilkes]], whose exploring party sailed up Puget Sound in 1841. The first permanent American settlement on Puget Sound was [[Tumwater, Washington|Tumwater]], founded in 1845 by Americans who had come via the [[Oregon Trail]]. The decision to settle north of the Columbia River was made in part because one of the settlers, [[George Washington Bush]], was considered [[Black people|black]] and the [[Provisional Government of Oregon]] banned the residency of mulattoes but did not actively enforce the restriction north of the river.<ref name="ci.tumwater.wa.us 2014">{{cite web |title=City of Tumwater, WA: History |publisher=City of Tumwater, WA |date=June 21, 2014 |url=http://www.ci.tumwater.wa.us/about-tumwater/history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821200944/http://www.ci.tumwater.wa.us/about-tumwater/history |archive-date=August 21, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 1853 [[Washington Territory]] was formed from part of [[Oregon Territory]].<ref name="WA Secretary of State: Settlers met at Monticello">{{cite web |title=Settlers met at Monticello to sign a petition asking Congress to create a separate territory north of the Columbia River |website=Washington State Archives |publisher=Washington Secretary of State |url=http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/Timeline/detail.aspx?id=214 |access-date=March 23, 2024 |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131224105517/http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/Timeline/detail.aspx?id=214 |url-status= live}}</ref> In 1888 the [[Northern Pacific Railway|Northern Pacific]] railroad line reached Puget Sound, linking the region to eastern states.<ref name="Oldham 2003">{{cite web |last=Oldham |first=Kit |title=First trains cross the Northern Pacific Railroad bridge spanning the Columbia River between Pasco and Kennewick on December 3, 1887 |work=HistoryLink |date=March 5, 2003|url=https://www.historylink.org/File/5365 |id=Essay 5365 |access-date=March 23, 2024 |archive-date=August 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808054555/http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5365 |url-status= live}}</ref> Washington State was admitted to the union in 1889 as part of the [[Enabling Act of 1889|Enabling Act]], and the regions borders have since remained unchanged.<ref name="Utter Spitzer 2013 p. 252">{{cite book |last1=Utter |first1=Robert F. |author-link=Robert F. Utter |last2=Spitzer |first2=Hugh D. |title=The Washington State Constitution |publisher=Oxford University Press |publication-place=New York, NY |year=2013 |orig-year=2002 |isbn=978-0-19-930067-9 |oclc=852158872 |page=252}}</ref>